French Mayor in Trouble After Pushing to Ban Islam and Deport Muslims
SputnikNews.com
16.05.2015
Robert Chardon, the mayor of a small town in southeastern France, has gained media infamy and the ire of the conservative Union for a Popular Movement party after tweeting that France must ban the Islamic faith and send Muslims back where they came from.
Chadron, the mayor of Venelles, a town with 8,000 residents, gained media attention for an offensive tweet he made earlier this week, where he stated “We Must ban the Muslim faith in France.”
Signing off as Robert Chardon, Mayor of Venelles, Chardon’s post was aimed at the UMP leader Nicolas Sarkozy, who launched his #NSDIRECT account ahead of a key party conference slated for later this month.
Chardon’s Islamophobic message was heavily criticized by twitter users, who soon turned the comments to his tweets into a flame war. One user sarcastically proposed “to ban idiocy in France,” while another noted that “In France, everyone is free to choose whether or not to believe in God, and that’s just fine!”, a third saying that he was “glad not to live in your **** town!”
Chardon went on to raise further controversy, telling Le Monde later in the week that Muslims should practice their religion “in their country of origin” and proposing that France create the equivalent of a Marshall Plan and send Muslims back to the Maghreb.
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